{"product_id":"chasing-secrets-9780385742542","title":"Chasing Secrets","description":"\u003cb\u003eNewbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSan Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people . . . but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city--a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors of the plague. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. So why is the heart of the city under quarantine? Why are angry mobs trying to burn Chinatown to the ground? Why is Noah, the Chinese cook's son, suddenly making Lizzie question everything she has known to be true? Ignoring the rules of race and class, Lizzie and Noah must put the pieces together in a heart-stopping race to save the people they love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of a Los Angeles Public Library FOCAL (Friends of Children and Literature) Award\u003cbr\u003eNominated for: \u003cbr\u003ePennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards\u003cbr\u003eTennessee Volunteer State Book Award (Middle School division)\u003cbr\u003eMissouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Award\u003cbr\u003eCalifornia Library Association's Beatty Award, Eureka List\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGennifer Choldenko is the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning author of many popular children's books, including \u003ci\u003eNotes from a Liar and Her Dog, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Al Capone Does My Homework, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Passengers Beyond This Point\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hopes never to see a rat. Dead or otherwise. Visit her online at choldenko.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yearling Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460169863442,"sku":"9780385742542","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63f9c61f-1406-460e-b495-f9be357c5a80.jpg?v=1730032176","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chasing-secrets-9780385742542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}